Police in Fort Worth are searching for an elderly man with dementia who went missing last month.

Joseph Geoffroy Billo, 87, was last seen Nov. 26. He was reported missing Sunday afternoon when police were called to an apartment complex in the 5000 block of Cameron Creek Circle, off Bryant Irvin Road in southwest Fort Worth, a police report says.

Billo is described as white, 6 feet tall and about 210 pounds. Police say he may appear confused and suffers from dementia.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts can call police at 817-335-4222.

Euless police are asking for help in the search for a Little Elm woman who went missing three weeks ago.

Tiffany Kelly, 33, was last seen Nov. 18 driving away from a Waffle House on Huffman Drive in Euless. She was driving a silver Pontiac G5 coupe with Texas license plate CFT6016.

Kelly’s mother, Joann Foster, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that her daughter hasn’t used her debit card or her cell phone since that day. She was supposed to travel to Oklahoma City to pick up her two sons but never showed up, the Star-Telegram reported.

Police say Kelly has a history of mental illness and could be in “grave danger.” Her mother said she’s bipolar and has not taken her medicine.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts can call police at 817-685-1531.

Destiny Ripka, 16, has been missing since Monday. She was last seen at Lakehill Preparatory.

Update at 9:45 a.m. November 20 by Robert Wilonsky: Dallas police say Destiny Ripka has been located, and that she’s safe and in good health. They’ve released no further details concerning the 16-year-old’s disappearance earlier this month, after police say she ran away from home.

This morning, Lakehill Preparatory School Assistant Headmaster Lara Gajkowski sent an email to parents about Ripka’s return that sheds a little more light on the circumstances of her return.

“I am so thankful to share that Destiny has been found,” says the email. “She is unharmed and in the safety of professionals who can help her process and make sense of the decisions she has made. The family is grateful for and appreciative of the love and support of our school community and ask that you continue to hold them in your thoughts and prayers. This is truly a time for giving thanks.”

Updated at 1:33 p.m. on Nov. 5 In an email Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Destiny Ripka’s school released more information about the teen’s movements before she went missing.

About 3:45 p.m. Monday, Ripka was seen walking east on Vickery Boulevard, toward the 76 Bus stop on the intersection of Abrams Road and Vickery Blvd, said Gigi Ekstrom, a Lakehill Prep spokeswoman.

She may have boarded a bus for the Mockingbird DART station and headed north, hauling her white, blue and green backpack.

But, Ekstrom said, police do not know where Ripka went next. Search dogs were unable to pick up her scent at the Mockingbird Station, where the bus line ends.

“The police are looking everywhere and are following every lead,” Ekstrom said in the email.

Original post at 7:50 a.m. on Nov. 4: Police are asking the public to help find a 16-year-old who was last seen Monday and may be suicidal.

Destiny Ripka, 5-foot-6 and 190 pounds, was last seen at Lakehill Preparatory near White Rock Lake. She has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and left a suicide note at home, according to a news release from Dallas police.

Ripka’s cellphone was last used before 2 p.m. Monday and was turned off.

Lone Star Search and Rescue will use canines to search the area surrounding Lakehill Preparatory, police said.

Gigi Ekstrom, a spokeswoman for Lakehill Preparatory, said the school is also helping Dallas police with their investigation.

Anyone with information on Ripka’s whereabouts can call 911 or Dallas police at 214-671-4268.

Updated at 7:32 a.m.: Dallas police have located a missing 82-year-old man.

William Smith has been found and is in “good health,” police said.

Original post at 12:12 a.m.: Dallas police are searching for a missing 82-year-old man who police said may be in the early stages of dementia.

William Smith was last seen Tuesday about 1:30 p.m. in the 9200 block of Markanne Drive, near Royal Lane and Highway 75 in Lake Highlands. Smith is a 6-foot, 150 pound black man with gray hair and brown eyes, police said.

He was wearing a burgundy pullover sweatshirt, black pants and a black baseball cap when he left his home in a 2008 silver Toyota Tacoma two-door truck. The truck has Texas license plate 28CMB8.

If contacted, police said Smith may be disoriented.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Dallas Police Department at 214-671-4268.

A missing Arlington man with dementia was found safe Wednesday morning, police said.

The family informed police about 10 a.m. that 68-year-old Jerry Pullen arrived at his grandson’s house in Venus, about 30 miles from his Arlington home.

Pullen left his home Tuesday morning in his minivan, telling family members that he was going to the bank.

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Arlington police are asking for the public’s help locating a man with dementia who was last seen Tuesday morning.

Jerry Pullen, 68, told family members that he was driving to the bank. He left his home in the 2500 block of Thomason Circle, near Northeast Green Oaks boulevard and Highway 360, about 10 a.m. and did not return, police said. His family called police about 6:15 p.m.

Pullen is a white man, about 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a green jacket and does not have his cell phone with him. He left in a gray 2001 Ford Windstar minivan with a dent on the back right bumper. The van has Texas license plate KDL-826.

An autopsy is being done today in hopes of providing some answers in the death of a Wylie woman who was found inside her minivan at the bottom of a pond on Sunday.

Almaz Gebremedhin, 42, was last seen headed to work at a nursing home just before 5:30 a.m. Oct. 2. She never made it.

On Sunday, a search team brought in by the family and the Mutual Assistance Association of for the Ethiopian Community located her Chevy Venture at the bottom of a pond using sonar imaging. Police were called. The minivan was recovered with her body still inside.

Wylie Police Sgt. Donna Valdepena said the investigation continues. Detectives are mapping the scene and doing a further examination of the minivan to try to find out what happened, she said.

Valdepena said police were notified about 12 hours after Gebremedhin first went missing. Officers, off-duty officers, search volunteers and helicopters looked extensively in the area along Gebremedhin’s likely route to work, Valdepena said.

“We didn’t see any indication she went off the roadway anywhere,” she said. “We certainly looked for that.”

She said police also had tips since Gebremedhin went missing that she had been seen at other locations, including the airport, in south Texas and in Louisiana. Those tips were all vetted, Valdepena said. Wylie Police also got the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety involved.

“We searched a lot of places,” Valdepena said. “We talked to a lot of people.”

Gebremedhin lived in Wylie with her husband, two children, ages 8 and 10, and her mother. She worked as an aide dispensing medication at Garnet Hill Rehabilitation and Skilled Care.

Her family, with the help of the Ethiopian community group, hired a private investigator to help with the search. The investigator, in turn, brought in the nonprofit Team Watters Sonar Search & Recovery Inc. based in Moro, Ill.

The husband-and-wife team of Tammy and Dennis Watters specializes in underwater searches using side-image sonar equipment. Tammy Watters said the resulting images look like an ultrasound, providing a black and white image of everything underwater as if the pond were drained. She said past searches have revealed locations of weapons and safes in addition to vehicles.

The couple, who volunteer their time and equipment, searched three other ponds in Wylie before finding Gebremedhin’s minivan submerged in the 8-foot-deep pond along McMillen Road, Watters said.

Valdepena said nothing was visible from the surface of the murky pond at Muddy Creek Farms. “Even the family who lived there had no indication there was a van in their pond,” she said.

Mac Mekonnen, executive director of the Ethopian community group, said Monday he was grateful for all the effort in the missing persons case. He thanked everyone involved in the search efforts since Oct. 2.

Watters said Monday that the find is bittersweet for her and her husband.

“You want to give the family closure,” Watters said. “But yet if we find it, it’s not the kind of outcome the family was wanting.”

Plano police obtained a search warrant in late September for the car owned by the man last seen with Christina Marie Morris, 23, of Fort worth, who disappeared from a parking garage at The Shops at Legacy on Aug. 30.

She hasn’t been seen since.

The affidavit for the search warrant notes that the man, Enrique Gutierrez Arochi of Allen — a high school friend of the missing woman — made false statements about where he parked his car in the garage, and about details of the last time he was with Morris.

During his interview with police, Arochi said he had parked in a lot near the Blue Martini, and insisted he wasn’t with Morris when she entered the lot where her car had been parked, by Henry’s Tavern. After being shown a photo of a man and a woman entering the lot, he admitted he had been with her. But he maintained that he left her in the lot to go to his car.

When detectives showed Arochi a photo of his Camaro leaving the parking lot near Henry’s, he acknowledged the car was his. “I must have parked there,” he said.

During that same interview, Arochi told detectives he had taken an Adderall — a psychostimulant used to treat ADHD — at about noon, and consumed 10 shots of Captain Morgan Rum at an apartment party with high school friends at about 10:30 p.m. He also drank three to five beers at two bars the friends visited.

He also told police that Morris had never been in his 2010 Chevrolet Camaro.

On Sept. 4, two days after Morris was reported missing, Arochi agreed to allow police to search his car. During the search, police noticed that Arochi had bruises on his right forearm and abrasions on his right hand. A co-worker later told detectives that he saw the same wounds when Arochi came to work at a Sprint store in Wylie on Aug. 30. Arochi walked with a limp and said his back hurt, Juan Ponce told detectives.

Arochi told Ponce he’d been in a fight the night before at The Shops at Legacy, the affidavit states.

Surveillance video from a Kroger in Allen showed Arochi driving up to a gas pump shortly after 10 a.m. on Aug. 30, then walking to the back of his 2010 Chevrolet Camaro to inspect the rear trunk area. After filling the car with gas, Arochi took a squeegee to scrub the back of the Camaro. He also appeared to wipe something from the passenger door.

“Arochi has made numerous false statements and omitted pertinent information to Affiant during the course of the investigation into Morris’ disappearance,” Plano Detective Cathy Stamm wrote in the affidavit for the search warrant. “Affiant believes Arochi has intentionally made false statements which have hindered detectives in locating Morris. …

“Affiant believes that the most likely way Morris could have left the parking garage undetected was in Arochi’s vehicle,” Stamm wrote. ” … Affiant knows and understands that a person, even through casual contact, may leave trace evidence in or on a vehicle which may include bodily fluids, hair, or DNA.”

During the first inspection of the car on Sept. 4, Stamm “noticed the vehicle’s interior appeared to be extremely clean and to have been recently vacuumed.

“Additionally, Affiant noticed what appeared to be fresh damage to the front right fender of his Camaro,” she wrote.

When detectives asked about the bruising on his right arm and abrasions on his right hand, Arochi told them he sustained the injuries on Aug. 29, before going to The Shops at Legacy. He hurt himself while working on the tires of his car when a wheel fell on his hand, he said, according to the affidavit.

“He became angry and damaged his front right fender by punching it with his right fist and striking it with his right forearm,” the affidavit states.

When a detective showed photos of the damage to a collision specialist, he was told the damage was inconsistent with Arochi’s explanation. But police said many vehicles have sensors that record data in an event that might cause damage.

Morris disappeared shortly after the surveillance photo was taken in the parking garage. Extensive searches and a $25,000 reward for information on her disappearance have turned up little.

The affidavit for the search warrant was submitted to the 380th District Court in Collin County on Sept. 26. The warrant was issued by Magistrate Benjamin N. Smith at 6:08 p.m. and was executed by Plano Police that night, when they seized Arochi’s Camaro.

Plano police have said little about the on-going investigation.

When asked what investigators found from their detailed search of Arochi’s car, public information officer David Tilley replied, “I don’t know.”

“Quite honestly, as far as the affidavit is concerned, it’s clearly a statement from our detectives working the case,” Tilley said.

“But since this is an open investigation, we’re not discussing anything related to this case.”

Police haven’t named Arochi or anyone as a suspect in what they call a missing person case.

Original item at 3 p.m.: Dallas police are asking for the public’s help locating a 78-year-old woman with dementia who went missing Monday morning.

Evelyn Annett Davis was last seen around 7 a.m. walking around the 2500 block of Fort Worth Avenue, near North Hampton Road, in west Oak Cliff.

Davis is hearing-impaired and may be disoriented. Police described her as a 5-foot-6 white woman, about 200 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing gray pajamas with white stripes on the shirt and clear sandals with black soles.

Anyone who sees Davis should call 911 or the Dallas Police Department at 214-671-4268.

Update at 10:10 a.m.: Dallas police say Dee Ann Green has been “safely located.” No other details have yet been made available.

Originally posted at 8:46 a.m.: Dallas police are asking for the public’s help in finding 43-year-old Dee Ann Green.

She hasn’t been missing long: Police say she was last seen on foot some time between 1 and 4 this morning along the 2100 block of Prichard Lane, near S. Buckner Boulevard and Bruton Road. But, according to a Dallas police spokesperson, they’re concerned “she might hurt herself or others.” For now, at least, police say they cannot be more specific.

Police say she’s 43 years old, stands about 5-foot-10 and weighs about 140 poounds. She has brown hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing blue jeans a black-and-beige shirt.

You are asked to call 911 or 214-671-4268 if you know of her whereabouts.